RE: [DML] Re: loose bright lights

["K. Creason" <dmc4687@xxxx>]

Here is what I think happened...
it's nothing really compared to y'alls engine swaps and such.
There a little spring that pulls up on the light assembly-- both of mine
were hanging loose and disconnected, and what's more the springs were fine,
the frame was fine. In fact, the light frame is black right there and it
wasn't even scratched.
I wonder if those little springs were forgotten at the factory-- but it
seems hard to believe that it took 22 years for the headlights to slip off
the adjusting screws and fall down.
Anyway-- springs all hooked up, back in the adjusting screw grooves and
hunky-dory.

-Kevin
#4687
Houston (lamenting his job that requires him to work this one weekend and
miss the DMC OH... oh well, I have friends in high places who need me)



-----Original Message-----
From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 5:09 PM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] Re: loose bright lights


Your headlights seem to have gotten lost amid engine swaps and fuel
distributors eh?

Each sealed beam assembly is held to a bucket by aluminum frame and
four sheet metal screws. Bucket is then held to header panel by two
adjusting screws and a tension spring. Standard arrangement for any
vehicle of that vintage.

Two possibilities:
Unlikely:
Sheet metal screws have come loose, allowing sealed beam to flop
around in bucket.
Likely:
1) tension springs have rusted to pieces, especially the bent coil
that holds them to bucket/header, removing tension that holds
everything in place
2) tabs on plastic retainers that hold adjusting screws to header
panel have gotten old, brittle, and broken. This will actually let the
bucket fall out.

Remove aluminum frames, unplug sealed beams, and investigate. If
tension springs are DOA, can cut and bend new ones from a single long
spring (but prices from vendors are so cheap you might as well go that
route, time permitting). If tabs on adjusting screw retainers are
broken can substitute the "1/4 Inch Universal" size from "Help" brand
(red packages at parts houses). Cost much less than vendors.

Don't forget to re-aim your headlights afterwards.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "K. Creason" <dmc4687@xxxx> wrote:
> I noticed this week that my brights have come loose.
> It's like they've popped out from the adjustment bracket. I haven't been
> working on that end, only in the back, so it's nothing I've done.
> I am just now starting to get the eyebrows, but nothing serious yet. I
> should correct that before it worsens, though.
>
> Any ideas on what made the loose headlights?
>
> -Kevin
> #4687



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